JB0704
I Gots Goats
There’s plenty of land to hunt that doesn’t border farmland, if you having trouble seeing deer why not go hunt somewhere else n not see deer but avoid the stress farmer Bob causes you shooting up the local herd.
Maybe you should go to South Georgia to huntWell everyone up here in the mountains would LOVE to have those problems. I have a major problem with killing them in one part of the state because they are a “nuisance” while other parts of the exact same state have a deer population of 0.001 deer per square mile.
Charlie said y’all have enough there now to repopulate the heard. The habit needs to change I believe he said. Plus a few other things.Let me make it clear, I have no issue with farmers protecting their crops. I do have an issue with those deer being wasted when there is a LEGITIMATE, DESPERATE need for them in the northern mountains. My problem is not with the farmers but with the organization that allows them to be killed instead of just TRYING to move them to repopulate like what was done in years past. It has been done before why can’t it happen again? If it wasn’t financially possible then they never would have restocked deer back then.
If I was financially able, I would. But just like many of us up here, we’re stuck with what we have around us, and we just want a huntable deer population.Maybe you should go to South Georgia to hunt
Are you talking about getting in a camp. Take the kids and get them a deer.Maybe you should go to South Georgia to hunt
That’s because you don’t understand antler economicsi don't understand why someone would force a farmer to spend $900,000 on fencing to protect $1,000,000 worth of crop when a box of .308 bullets is $17.99.
I understand it quite well. The bucks I shoot are little. My hunters tell me so. Then they shoot one smaller and say well you shot the big ones. ?That’s because you don’t understand antler economics
I do too friend. You have to understand that we have been told for years by higher ups in DNR that they are working on it, but actions speak louder than words. All we have had is cheap talk by people with fancy degrees.I wish y’all had a better heard.
Best of luck to y’all.I do too friend. You have to understand that we have been told for years by higher ups in DNR that they are working on it, but actions speak louder than words. All we have had is cheap talk by people with fancy degrees.
At some point the rubber has to meet the road. Us mountain hunters interact with our local wardens and area biologists regularly due to getting bears tagged in person and in talking to them they are just as frustrated with this cheap talk as us hunters are.
One of the issues that hasn't been brought up here yet is people with permits allowing friends to shoot bucks. Dnr finally caught up with individuals who had a permit on a field adjacent to our lease, they were shooting trophy bucks that I had on camera all summer. Then all of a sudden there are zero trophies on my cam. Game warden got involved and they were caught red handed killing these bucks. Oh they choose to shoot the bucks in late Aug and early Sept...go figure
You hunt around some agricultural fields also.This is why I ask the question I asked. It's one thing to have hired guns out there that know what they are doing and are killing the right deer but I'm hearing and seeing situations of abuse and when the local game warden is talked to about it he says he can't hardly do anything about it because they have thermal optics, all they have to do is scan the area to make sure there are no heat signatures from engines or people before they start unloading on the deer and yes both bucks and does have been killed and just left in fields over the last couple of years. Obviously from my post I believe there is a situation going on (supposedly, at this point it is hear say) where a Florida hunter is shooting does and is saying he's on a permit to do so, hence the question to Mr. Killmaster.
I don’t believe you. I will definitely call my local DNR guy that has tagged multiple bears for me and checked in deer at the check station for me. He cares as much about the mountain deer herd as I do after multiple conversations with him and I would like his take on this particular matter.
We moved deer and turkeys regularly and restocked areas in the not so distant past, why are you acting like it’s so impossible to do now? I’m honestly starting to think you don’t care a thing about our mountain deer herd.
Do all livelihoods deserve to go around the law to defend their profits? I might become a trucker. I’ll put a cow scoop on the front of my rig and plow through intersections and traffic jams. Stopping would cut into my profits. Maybe I’ll become a business man and keep my tax money instead of paying them, you know, to protect my profits.
I appreciate ag as much as the next guy, but having farmers view themselves as heroes is getting old. The permits are abused and a joke. Yes, there are some exceptions.
Would you want to pay to fence in a couple thousand acres? I’m all for not wasting the deer when you shoot them but I understand it’s just how it goes. Same thing with hogs but not many people get that upset when they kill 30 hogs and leave them laying. The farmer makes a living growing crops and lots of people survive eating the crops these farmers sell. None of us want the government to force us to pay a huge tax to operate our business why force the burden of paying for fencing to protect our deer on a farmer? I hate to see the deer killed but mostly because I’m a deer hunter otherwise it wouldn’t be such a big dealI feel that farmers should be required to utilize all other options first, fencing (high or electric, spaced double fencing etc.), public hunting opportunities, deer deterrent spraying, and whatever else might help before being given a kill permit. If the deer are causing that much financial cost to the farmer then a one-time fence expense may be reasonable.